Catalog: Vintage Arts: Regional Art (194)

Chinese porcelain baluster vase painted in late 'famille rose' style on a white ground with a group of Immortals resting in a landscape. The base glazed white with a six character Jiaqing mark in iron red and of the period.

Size: Approximately 30.5 cm high

Age: Jiaqing (1796-1821)

Condition: There is a gash in the top rim extending approximately 1". A restorer can repair this vase at minimal cost.

A rare carved caramel and honey-colour cameo agate snuff bottle of compressed pear-form shape. The bottle is raised on an oblong foot ring and is carved on one side through an opaque caramel-colored area of the stone to the semi-translucent soft honey-colored body with a scholar watching a bat in flight. Matching original stopper.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Very good condition

Chinese watercolour painting depicting the god of longevity or Shou Lao. The picture is called "Image of the Star of Longevity" (after the three star gods: prosperity, happiness, longevity). The inscription describes a story about a Daoist that dates to the reign of the Northern Song emperor Ningzong. The artist is surnamed Yao.

Size: Approximately 69 1/2 cm high by 34 cm wide

Providence: Stockton House, England...

A pair of Chinese opaque yellow glass bottle vases. Each with tall carved necks and rounded rims, the necks decorated with the tails of dragons that eminate from the rounded bodies . The two five claw dragons chasing a flaming pearl through the heavens. The base plain.

Note: The pictures were taken in two different lights, hence the difference in the colour shades.

Size: 10" high

Condition: One of the vases is in good condition...

A pair of Chinese blanc de chine figures of the immortal Budai, each figure shown with laughing expression and holding a string of beads in their right hands while their left grasps their long robes. The robes fastened at the upper chest with circular clasp. Below the corpulent immortals robes the robes are fastened with a long, tasselled fastener...

Painted in Qianjiang style with one face with two figures beneath a willow tree. The opposite showing a quail on the ground with flowerheads, the remaining faces with texts. Side relief elephant mask ring handles. Thickly glazed with an orange-peel effect on the outside. Glazed on the inside and base with the base rim left bare. Various seals in red. Dated 1911

Size: 9-1/2" high by 4-1/2" wide

Condition: Very good, no breaks

Age: Early Republic (1911)

A Carved silhouette agate snuff bottle, the slightly flattened globular body carved to the front face using the dark brown layer with a scholar among trees, flowers and rockery. The reverse left bare. Complete with original matching agate stopper. Recessed base.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Good condition

Unique Chinese carved rock crystal double carp snuff bottle. This snuff bottle features two carps reaching upwards against a sea wave base. The smaller carp with it's mouth open and the larger carp with a rock crystal stopper in it's mouth. The double carp is a symbol in Chinese mythology for a happy union in marriage.

Age: 19th Century

Size: 2" width by 2" high by 1" depth (without stopper)

Condition: Good overall condition.

Chinese dingyao bowl of shallow conical form with lobed rim. The widely flaring sides divided into six lobes, with indentations along the rim corresponding to thin raised lines radiating from the circular inner well.

Age: Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)

Condition: Very good overall condition. Some kiln grit and a firing flaw on one of the lobes.

Size: Approximately 16 cm diameter by 4 cm high

Chinese Ma Shaoxuan glass inside painted portrait snuff bottle of a Chinese official. Spoon with red stone stopper (believed to be agate). Recessed base. On the front with the picture there is 6 characters of writing. On the back there is a poem with a red seal.

Size: Approximately 3.5" high by 1" depth by 2" width (Including Stopper)

Provenance: Previously in the Collection of Ted Adameck and Dennis Marlow

Condition: Good, no breaks or cracks...

A set of three antique Blanc de Chine tea bowls made in the Dehua kilns. Each white bowl thinly potted of plain form with flared lip and tapering sides. Glazed all over in a creamy white glaze except for the foot ring. Purchased from a collection of antique Chinese porcelain belonging to an investment house.

Size: 2.1" diameter by 1-1/2" high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks...

Chinese antique blue and white stoneware vase. Painted in under-glaze blue with a central theme of a bird among flowering branches with animal head side handles holding stationary rings. Decorated the same on the opposite side. There is a blue hue to the glaze. Glazed on the inside and base with the base rim unglazed...

Chinese antique large porcelain circular box with cover decorated in polychrome floral decoration. The base and cover are decorated with peonies flowers on branches in both white and famille rose. There is a six character blue Qianlong seal mark on the base.

Size: 15 cm high by 26 cm diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no cracks and/or breaks

Age: Early 19th century

A large Chinese tapering two-handled 'palace' vase, Hu in 18th century imperial style, decorated principally around the body on the yellow ground with groups of pomegranate and clusters of bats supporting fylfots, below a wide band of lotus and scrolling foliage, underglaze blue waves in a band at the rim, lappets at the foot, the handles as blue elephant heads, the base with an apocryphal seal mark of the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795) on a turquoise ground...

A Chinese antique pear shaped snuff bottle done in glass overlay with four colours on an opaque white ground. The bottle of compressed ovoid form raising from an oval foot to a tall cylindrical neck. One carved side shows a bird perched on a tall branch holding fruit. On this side the maker has also affixed his mark, from Yangzhou School. On the reverse it shows a bird with overhead butterflies and insects hovering over lily pods in the water...

A Chinese cloisonne enamel dish with a central medallion made to imitate dreamstone outlined with a border enameled with flowers and butterflies on a blue ground with an additional border with flowers on a white ground. The dish is completed with a copper rim in a wave design. The back enameled in the same design around the rim with the center enameled in blue. All with gilded wires...

A Chinese shoushan seal carved in its natural form. On one side it shows a man riding a donkey, with another kneeling gathering items under a large tree. The reverse reveals a home in the distance. On this side, there is also a four character carved mark...

A Chinese duan inkstone housed in a fitted carved box, most probably for a scholar. The box is carved with birds on flowering branches. The box sits on four corner mounts. The stone is carved with a poem. I believe that the box is zitan. (Note: Some of the pictures have been lightened to show the detail.)

Size: The stone is 4" wide by 5-1/2" high. The box is 5" wide by 6-1/2" high

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: The stone has a very small chip under a rim cor...